"Sophie Nélisse Sophie Nélisse (born March 27, 2000) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her Genie Award–winning performance in ""Monsieur Lazhar"", and as Liesel Meminger in the film adaptation of the best-selling novel ""The Book Thief"" written by Markus Zusak. Her sister Isabelle Nélisse (born December 3, 2003) is also an actress, best known for her roles in ""Mama"" (for which she received multiple award nominations) and HBO's controversial film ""The Tale""; the sisters also played together in """", ""Wait Till Helen Comes"" and ""Worst Case, We Get Married"". Nélisse was born in Windsor, Ontario, on March 27,"
"the story a few times. Liesel's father was taken away by the Nazis prior to the novel starting because he was a Communist, and the reason her mother – Paula Meminger – was taking both her children to foster care was to save them from Nazi persecution. Liesel's mother met the same fate as her father, but Liesel eventually realizes her mother gave her away to protect her. The book is introduced by the character/narrator Death, which underlines that mortality is very present in the lives of each character. Throughout the novel, the deaths of prominent characters reaffirm the presence"
"novel ""ZWINGER"" was released in Russian by Corpus Books. The novel blends together the genres of historical novel and thriller, with a lively and ironic style. In the frame of a fictional detective story set during the 2005 Frankfurt Book Fair, the book investigates deeply into the real mysteries of the Twentieth century history through direct testimonies of the author, and precious documents of author's grandfather who was one of the ""Monuments Men"" of World War II, the head of Red Army investigation unit responsible for search of paintings from the Dresden Art Museum hidden by the Nazis. Elena Kostioukovitch"
"Summer Knight Summer Knight is a 2002 ""New York Times"" Bestselling contemporary fantasy novel by author Jim Butcher. It is the fourth novel in ""The Dresden Files"", which follows the character of Harry Dresden, present-day Chicago's only professional wizard. Mab, the Winter Queen of the Sidhe, has purchased Dresden's debt from his fairy godmother, Leanansidhe. She tells Dresden he can pay off his debt by doing three favors. The first favor is for him to find the murderer of the Summer Knight Ronald Reuel and recover his stolen mantle. Dresden refuses her request, but is forced by the White Council"
"her changeling friend Fix her new Summer Knight. Critical reception has been positive. The SF Site and Tor.com both reviewed ""Summer Knight"", with Victoria Strauss commenting via the SF Site that it was ""another superior entry in this excellent series."" Summer Knight Summer Knight is a 2002 ""New York Times"" Bestselling contemporary fantasy novel by author Jim Butcher. It is the fourth novel in ""The Dresden Files"", which follows the character of Harry Dresden, present-day Chicago's only professional wizard. Mab, the Winter Queen of the Sidhe, has purchased Dresden's debt from his fairy godmother, Leanansidhe. She tells Dresden he can"
"for its disappointing sales. Publisher Simon & Schuster paid Weisberger $1 million for the novel. The audio book was read by actress Eliza Dushku. In some European countries this novel was released as ""Gossip and Gucci"". ""Chasing Harry Winston"" is Weisberger's third novel, which was released on May 27, 2008. It was released in the United Kingdom on May 19, 2008. The main characters are three best friend New Yorkers, Emmy, Adriana and Leigh, who are facing the horror of turning 30. Recently dumped Emmy promises to make a drastic change and find guys from every continent for casual affairs."
"fictional level as a quasi-ghost figure, while at the same time the heroes appear to be real. The reader learns this as the real family members begin to die. Finally, the first-person narrator finally turns out to be the spirits of the murdered boys. Heimweg Heimweg (English: ""The Way Home"") is a novel from the German author and journalist Harald Martenstein. It was released in February 2007. In Germany, it is currently the most popular representation of post-war fiction. The focus of the story is on the first-person narrator, a grandfather named Josef. He returns home from Russian captivity after"
"and the other characters in the book, love is seen as an agent of change and freedom. Liesel overcomes her traumas by learning to love and be loved by her foster family and her friends. In the beginning of the novel, Liesel is traumatized not only by the death of her brother and her separation from her only family, but also as a result of the larger issues regarding war-torn Germany and the destruction by the Nazi party. As Liesel's foster father Hans develops a relationship with her, healing and growth are a direct result. This pattern is reflected in"
"the maturity demanded by her destructive surroundings. As the political situation in Germany deteriorates, her foster parents conceal a Jewish fist fighter named Max Vandenburg. Hans, who has developed a close relationship with Liesel, teaches her to read, first in her bedroom, then in the basement. Recognizing the power of writing and sharing the written word, Liesel not only begins to steal books that the Nazi party is looking to destroy, but also writes her own story, and shares the power of language with Max. The protagonist of the story is an adopted girl on the verge of adolescence, with"
"which helps Liesel to develop as a writer and reader, which, in turn, saves her life from the bombs. The wife of the mayor of Molching who employs Rosa Hubermann. She entered depression after the death of her only son in the Great War. Ilsa allows Liesel to visit and read books in her personal library. She also gives Liesel a little black book, which leads Liesel to write her own story, ""The Book Thief"". Liesel's little brother, who died suddenly on the train with his mother, while being transported to their foster parents. Liesel's mother is only mentioned in"
"Winter (Meyer novel) Winter is a 2015 young adult science fiction novel written by American author Marissa Meyer and published by Macmillan Publishers through their subsidiary Feiwel & Friends. It is the fourth and final book in ""The Lunar Chronicles"" series and the sequel to ""Cress"". The story is loosely based on the fairy tale of ""Snow White"", similar to its predecessors ""Cinder"", ""Scarlet"" and ""Cress"" which were loosely based on ""Cinderella"", ""Little Red Riding Hood"" and ""Rapunzel"" respectively. It was a ""USA Today"" and ""Wall Street Journal"" bestselling novel. Due to Princess Winter's refusal to use the Lunar gift,"
"Gretel: A Novel of War and Survival. She caught both kids and adult readers in her story of the classic fairy tale Hansel and Gretel mixed in with the Holocaust and World War II. Mark Harris, a reporter for Entertainment Weekly, described the change from the fairy tale into a “parable of survival” an “intriguing idea”. She won the Writers Digest award for poetry and she also won the Shaunt Basmajian Award for books both in 2003. She is currently working on her latest novel, which is set in 1984 in California, Love Stories. Louise Murphy Louise Murphy was born"
"Lucky Meisenheimer Lucky Meisenheimer (born 1957) is an American physician, athlete, author, and actor. He is best known for his novel, The Immune, his Guinness world record collection of yo-yos, and his guides, Lucky's Collectors Guide to 20th Century Yo-Yos and The Zombie Cause Dictionary. International Book Awards Winner in the category of Science Fiction. Readers' Favorites Awards Winner in the categories of Science Fiction and Action. Indie Excellence Winner Book Awards Winner in the category of Science Fiction. USA Best Book Awards Winner in the category of Science Fiction. Born John L. Meisenheimer, Jr at Patrick Air Force Base,"
"The Book Thief The Book Thief is a 2005 historical novel by Australian author Markus Zusak and is his most popular work. Published in 2005, ""The Book Thief"" became an international bestseller and was translated into several languages. It was adapted into a 2013 feature film of the same name. After the death of Liesel's younger brother on a train to Molching, Liesel arrives at the home of her new foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann, distraught and withdrawn. During her time there, she is exposed to the horrors of the Nazi regime, caught between the innocence of childhood and"
"bestselling memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, and reflects the tongue-in-cheek humor of the novel. ""Drink, Slay, Love"" is being made into a Lifetime movie directed by Vanessa Parise and produced by Bella Thorne. Pearl, the novel's sixteen-year-old vampire protagonist, is played by Cierra Ramirez. The film is scheduled to air in early 2017. Durst won her first writing award for ""Vessel"", published in 2012. ""Vessel"" won a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature and was a finalist for an Andre Norton Award. Durst followed ""Vessel"" with the young adult novel ""Conjured"" in 2013, which was a finalist for a Mythopoeic Fantasy"
"to be awarded the highly prestigious Polizeistern by the Polizei Hamburg. Blood Eagle (novel) Blood Eagle is a novel by Craig Russell. First published in 2005, it is the first in a series of crime novels set in Hamburg, Germany, and featuring Kriminalhauptkommissar Jan Fabel. Blood Eagle, as well the follow-up novels in the series, are characterized by their use of history, mythology and legend. In Blood Eagle, Fabel hunts a serial-killer who uses an ancient Viking ritual of human sacrifice, the Blood Eagle, to kill his victims. Two women die horrific deaths, the manner is clearly ritualistic. The murderer"
"prose is distinctly and obviously DeLillo's, but as further proof of his authorship, readers cite the appearance of the character Murray Jay Siskind, a sportswriter in the novel, who later appears as the eccentric former sportswriter-turned-""visiting lecturer on American icons"" in DeLillo's novel ""White Noise"". Amazons (novel) Amazons is a novel co-written by Don DeLillo, published under the pseudonym Cleo Birdwell in 1980. The subtitle is ""An Intimate Memoir By the First Woman to Play in the National Hockey League"". The book was a collaboration with a former co-worker of DeLillo's, Sue Buck, and represents a commercial, light-hearted effort between"
"real-life neighborhood of Del Castilho in Rio de Janeiro, where he used to visit his grandmother when he was a kid. Heringer's final published work was a translation to Portuguese of Loung Ung's 2000 memoir ""First They Killed My Father"", which came out in Brazil in 2017 through HarperCollins. On March 7, 2018, three weeks prior to his 30th birthday, Heringer was found dead near the building in which he lived, in Copacabana. The cause of death was undisclosed, but the police and firemen came to speculate he accidentally fell from the window of his apartment. On June 9, 2018,"
"buying the old yacht ""Carin II"" of Hermann Göring and starting an affair with his (fictional) grandniece Freya von Hepp. Towards the end, the plot has developed its own dynamics, putting more and more pressure on Knobel to deliver the remaining volumes while permanently fearing the uncovering of the forgery. The volumes are convincing enough to fool the enthusiastic journalists, who are willing to overlook some oddities, especially a false monogram ""FH"" instead of ""AH"" on one of the volumes. They even invent ""alternative facts"" for their explanation (the term ""Führer Hitler"" instead of ""Adolf Hitler"" for instance). Later Knobel"
"membrane separating her new world from her old begins to rupture. Tender Morsels Tender Morsels (2008) is a novel by Australian author Margo Lanagan. It won the Ditmar Award in 2009 for Best Novel and was joint winner of the 2009 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Based on the Brothers Grimm story of ""Snow-White and Rose-Red"", this novel tells the story of 15-year-old motherless Liga, abused by her father, and pregnant with her second child - the first being forcibly miscarried. As she attempts to take her own life she is transported to a magical place, a haven from"
"Bestseller List."" ""The Singles Game"" was released in 2016. ""When Life Gives You Lululemons,"" a second sequel to ""The Devil Wears Prada,"" was released in 2018. Her short story ""The Bamboo Confessions"" is included in the anthology ""American Girls About Town"", and is about a New York City backpacker who travels around the world and begins to view her love life back home in a different light. Weisberger lives in New York City with her husband, two kids, and dog, Stella. Lauren Weisberger Lauren Weisberger (born March 28, 1977) is an American novelist and author of the 2003 bestseller ""The"
"Heimweg Heimweg (English: ""The Way Home"") is a novel from the German author and journalist Harald Martenstein. It was released in February 2007. In Germany, it is currently the most popular representation of post-war fiction. The focus of the story is on the first-person narrator, a grandfather named Josef. He returns home from Russian captivity after the war to find his wife Katharina in an adulterous relationship. Over the course of the story, he tries to get her back. In this respect, he is successful, seeing that she is becoming insane and in this connection only turns to him. The"
"Forks, Scissors, Flames"" (novel) Panhandler Books. <br> 2017 ""Cover Stories"" (anthology) Volt Books. <br> 2018 ""Berlingeles"" (novel) Revelore Press. <br> Stefan Kiesbye Stefan Kiesbye is a German novelist and poet. His first novel, ""Next Door Lived a Girl"" won the Low Fidelity Press Novella Award. The German edition was a KrimiWelt Top Ten crime novel pick for four consecutive months. The book has also been translated into Dutch, Spanish and Japanese. His second novel,""Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone"" was a Top Ten pick of Oprah Magazine, made Entertainment Weekly’s Must List, and was named one of"
"2011 for his ""Herzens Lust Spiele"". Luxembourgish literature was long confined to poetry and the theatre, but in the 1980s, as a result of the movement to make Luxembourgish an official language, Guy Rewenig (born 1947) and Roger Manderscheid (1933–2010) both wrote novels in Luxembourgish. Rewenig's ""Hannert dem Atlantik"" (1985) broke new ground as the first novel written in the local language. Ostensibly the story of Jemp Medinger, a street sweeper, it is a critical account of the problems of family life and the authoritarian structures of politics and society, adapting the ""stream of consciousness"" technique to experiments with the"
"deal with the past. The Forgotten (Wiesel novel) The Forgotten (French: ""L'oublié"" ""the forgotten one"") is a novel by Elie Wiesel, published in 1992 in French. It follows two men, Elhanan Rosenbaum, and his son Malkiel. Elhanan is suffering from an incurable disease that causes him to lose his memory slowly, something like amnesia. Elhanan tells Malkiel the story of his past before he forgets it all. Malkiel is compelled to go to the village in Romania where his father failed to stop a crime from occurring, a memory that continues to haunt him. Malkiel encounters the truth about his"
"place before ""The Furthest Station"". Set directly after ""What Abigail Did That Summer"", and focuses on the as yet unintroduced character Tobias Winter who works for the Abteilung KDA, the German equivalent of the Folly. Following FBI Agent Kimberley Reynolds, who was introduced in Whispers Underground, and has subsequently become an ally of the Folly, this novella is set after Lies Sleeping. In additional to the novels and novellas listed above, there are also 2 forthcoming graphic novels; Action at a Distance, and The Fey and the Furious will take place after the events of Lies Sleeping. Aaronovitch has also"
"other German-language and international writers with a focus on suicide, isolation and homosexuality such as Jean Genet, Peter Handke and Hans Henny Jahnn. Winkler’s numerous trips to both Italy and India are frequently reflected in his works, including Indian death rituals as practiced in the city of Varanasi which are contrasted with Catholic rituals in his home culture. His early work ""Wortschatz der Nacht"" was published in February 2013. His most recent work, ""Winnetou, Abel und ich"" (2014), featuring his early acquaintance with Karl May, includes both an important chapter of his literary autobiography and re-tellings of May’s fantastical stories"
"Gustav Meyrink Gustav Meyrink (January 19, 1868 – December 4, 1932) was the pseudonym of Gustav Meyer, an Austrian author, novelist, dramatist, translator, and banker, most famous for his novel ""The Golem"". He has been described as the ""most respected German language writer in the field of supernatural fiction"". Gustav Meyrink was born with the name ""Gustav Meyer"" in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) on January 19, 1868. He was the illegitimate son of Baron Karl von Varnbüler und zu Hemmingen and actress Maria Wilhelmina Adelheyd Meier. Meyrink was not, despite the statements of some of his contemporaries, of Jewish descent"
"She also makes use of Facebook and other social media sites to promote the marketing of her works. Emily Bold Emily Bold (born 2 March 1980) is a German author who lives in Bavaria. She writes romantic historical novels and stories for young adults, some of which have been translated into English. She became a best selling author in 2011 with ""Gefährliche Intrigen"" (Dangerous Intrigue). Bold has been writing novels since 2008. In May 2011, she published her first novel, ""Gefährliche Intrigen"", on Kindle. As a result, it soon became a best seller. Her other works are also available as"
"to Poe and Lenin, displaying his erudition but failing to ignite the reader's engaged interest."" Eumeswil Eumeswil is a 1977 novel by the German author Ernst Jünger. The narrative is set in an undatable post-apocalyptic world, somewhere in present-day Morocco. It follows the inner and outer life of Manuel Venator, a historian in the city-state of Eumeswil who also holds a part-time job in the night bar of Eumeswil's ruling tyrant, the Condor. The book was published in English in 1993, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. The key theme in the novel is the figure of the Anarch, the inwardly-free individual"
"continues his old lavish and promiscuous lifestyle, working as police informer for the Stasi and dealing on the black market. The book's protagonist Heinrich Hampel serves as a symbol for the complexities of inner-German relations in times of the Cold War. In 2003 Kumpfmüller published the novel ""Durst"" (English: ""Thirst"") about a woman who abandons her two children in the midsummer with only a small juice carton left in the apartment. The novel was inspired by a real case of negligent homicide that happened in 1999 in Frankfurt (Oder). Michael Kumpfmüller Michael Kumpfmüller (born 21 July 1961 in Munich) is"
"a while but, despite being successful, never went to Europe the way he wanted to as a teenager. Sebastian tells Meche that he was, and still is, in love with her and finally gives her his objects of power, which were the sneakers he wore as a teenager. Meche is determined to leave him behind and return to Oslo where she now lives, but instead goes back to his apartment and asks if they can begin again, finally telling him that she loves him in Norwegian. The novel received generally positive reviews upon publication. In April 2015 it was named"
"new project, and it was announced that Kim Basinger would play Elena Lincoln. Fifty Shades Darker Fifty Shades Darker is a 2012 erotic romance novel by British author E. L. James. It is the second installment in the ""Fifty Shades"" trilogy that traces the deepening relationship between a college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and a young business magnate, Christian Grey. The first and third volumes, ""Fifty Shades of Grey"" and ""Fifty Shades Freed"", were published in 2011 and 2012, respectively. The novel is published by Vintage Books and reached No. 1 on the ""USA Today"" best seller list. Three days after"